[Air-L] do we need an aoir data archive / Twitter data sharing update

Deen Freelon dfreelon at u.washington.edu
Fri May 6 14:15:29 PDT 2011


Apropos of both this thread and yesterday's, I'm curious, Stu—what is 
JITP's policy on public archiving of data that is forbidden to be 
distributed by the hosting company's TOS (e.g. Twitter)? Do you make an 
exception for studies based on such data (a content analysis of tweets, 
for example), or would they be off-limits because the data can't be shared?

Seems like this could be a potential issue for any journal that 
publishes such studies—a TOS as restrictive as Twitter's would seem to 
disallow even limited data sharing with editors and anonymous reviewers. 
~DEEN

On 5/6/11 1:13 PM, Stuart Shulman wrote:
> And we have a replication policy for qual&  quant datasets:
>
> http://www.jitp.net/m_replicat.php
>
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Stuart Shulman<stuart.shulman at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> JITP (www.jitp.net) has its own Dataverse and we like it a lot:
>>
>> http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/jitp
>>
>> I only wish more authors would put their data up! Harvard has been
>> excellent supporting this service. It was easy to set up and customize.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Michael Zimmer<zimmerm at uwm.edu>  wrote:
>>
>>> You mean like Dataverse?
>>> http://thedata.org/home
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 6, 2011, at 10:50 AM, jeremy hunsinger wrote:
>>>
>>>> I brought this up on twitter yesterday.   Perhaps it is time for AoIR to
>>> start an archive of data for current and future use.  My thought is that
>>> right now many researchers have access and rights to share significant bits
>>> of data, and many do not have access.  As I've said elsewhere, i don't
>>> actually think you can do peer reviewable research without providing access
>>> to the data that generated that research, and given that I have reviewed
>>> several papers based on proprietary information they could not release...,
>>> I'm thinking that we need to find ways of getting our data out there in the
>>> spirit of community and to promote scholarly quality.     I also think
>>> having a neutral nonprofit holding the information would make it far easier
>>> for people to get information shared from corporations.
>>>> However, that i see the need and others have agreed here and there, I
>>> think it is time to have a discussion.  Personally, I know that I could set
>>> the infrastructure up without issue.   The website in theory has close to
>>> unlimited storage space, though downloads would need to be limited as we
>>> have limited processor speed.   There are also legal issues, copyright
>>> issues, and codebook issues that would need to be sorted out.
>>>> so do we need something like this?  and if so or if not, why or why not?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jeremy Hunsinger
>>>> Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
>>>> Virginia Tech
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a
>>> thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
>>> --Byron
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
>> --
>>
>> Stuart Shulman
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>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>


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Deen Freelon
Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Communication
University of Washington
dfreelon at uw.edu
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